Looking north showing the corner of Wellesley and Federal Streets
1925 (James Richardson) - 2025
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1925 image: James Richardson | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections
The building at centre in the 1925 image, known as Federal Hall when it was built in 1901, replaced a timber Baptist church dating from 1858. Indeed, a section of the old church buildings had lingered on, still visible in 1925 as the two timber buildings behind Federal Hall.
Click here for then-and-now treatments of the old Baptist church from the 1860s.
